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Among leading lyrical poets may be mentioned Morike (1804-75), Hebbel (1813- 1863), Keller (1819-90), Detlev von Lilien- cron (bom 1844), and Dehmel (born 1863).

Among rustic poets (in dialect) may be mentioned with special approbation Hebel, Groth, and Storm. Only some of the last- mentioned Writer's poems are in dialect (Plattdeutsch). H. I. B.

" PLAINS ** = TIMBER-DENUDED LANDS (10 S. xii. 81, 194, 238 ; 11 S. i. 352). This use of the word no doubt explains what has always been rather puzzling as to the name of the manor of " Plain Furness," which includes the toWn of Barrow, the Isle of Walney, and the south-eastern part of the peninsula of Furness. It is generally taken to be so called in contradistinction to the district to the north, Which is known as " High Furness,' 1 though tl^ere is no manor of that name, it including several smaller manors.

Plain Furness is very far from being a plain in the ordinary sense, for it has hardly any level ground in it. The name is probably derived from the fact that, being exposed to the full blasts of the salt-laden West wind which prevails for the greater part of the year, it Was at no time covered with the brushwood which even now covers a large part, and probably once covered the whole, of High and East Furness.

H. G. P. f

BASBOW LANE (11 S. i. 389). A base bow simply means " a low bend *' ; but how we are to interpret it in the present case is obviously hard to say. The senses of bow are numerous : one sense Was an archway ; another, a low-arched bridge of a single span, &c. . WALTER W. SKEAT.

DUKE'S PLACE, ALDGATE (11 S. i. 326, 397)._The Priory of the Holy Trinity, Aid- gate, was granted at the Reformation to Sir Thomas Audley, Who died there in 1544. Wishing to rebuild St. Katherine's Cree Church, he offered the parishioners the priory church and nine bells for the site of their own ; this being refused, he offered the stone of the church to any one who would cart it away, and sold the bells to Stepney and St. Stephen's Coleman Street. His son-in-law the Duke of Norfolk inherited the estate ; and Strype gives an account of his riding to Cree Church, attended by a hundred horsemen in rich liveries, and Clarencieux, Somerset, Red Cross, and Blue Mantle heralds. He Was executed for plotting with Marie Stuart, and his son Lord Suffolk sold


 * he estate to the City. In 1692 the German

JeWs (Ashkenazim) bought a parcel of land and erected their synagogue, I can find no mention 'of the Duke of St. Albans in con- nexion with the locality, but Duke's Place las now the misleading title of St. James's Place. A full account can be found in Essex Archeological Transactions, x. 289.
 * Old and New 1 London,' ii. 248, and

W. HOWARD-FLAUNDERS.

SLAVONIC LINDEN FOLK-LORE (11 S. i. 365). There is no doubt that the Chekh poetical name " Lipen " (as Well as the old Russian " Lipets " or "Liptsa"), denoting the month of July, originated, as suggested in MR. F. P. MARCHANT'S interesting note, from the same source as lipa, the common Slavonic name of the linden or lime tree. Dai's Great- Russian dictionary contains " Lipets or Liptsa " as a derivative of lipa, tilia, linden- tree, and says : "an old name of the month of July, When the linden is in blossom." Whether lapot and its plural lapti, the bast shoes of the Russian peasant, belong to the same source as lipa.; linden, I am not quite so certain. Miklosich in his ' Etymological Dictionary * keeps it separate, and Goryayev, in his * Comparative Russ. Diet.' of 1896, connects it only With Greek ACTTOS or AOTTOS-= bark. Hence such lapti may have been made originally out of the bark or cork of various trees. H. KREBS.

JOHN NICHOLL, F.S.A. (11 S. i. 388). MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS asks if John Nicholl was related to the Nicholl family who were the freeholders of Laycock's Farm property. I think not, as it is so far quite unknown to the family. I subjoin a few notes about my father.

He was born 19 April, 1790, and lived for many years in Cross Street, Islington, and afterwards at Canonbury Place, where he died 7 Feb., 1871, being buried in the church yard of Theydon Gernon, Essex, on the 13th of the same month.

He married in 1822 Elizabeth Sarah, daughter and heiress of John Rahn, M.D., of Enfield, Middlesex (by Mary his wife, daughter of Joseph Miller of Nash Hall, Essex), by whom he left three sons and two daughters.

Ainong his many manuscripts were sketches of the monumental and other anti- quities of some Essex churches, in three folio volumes ; three folio volumes of notes taken in two Continental tours in 1842 and 1843 ; three folio volumes of pedigrees illus- trative of the Visitation of Essex in 1612 ;